Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Robinson, Edwin Hunt October 22 1827 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
DR. EDWIN HUNT ROBINSON, physician and farmer near Robinson Springs, Elmore
county, was born in Autauga county, Ala., October 22, 1827, son of Lewis G. and
Mary A. (Whetstone) Robinson, natives of Orangeburg district, S. C., who came to
Alabama in 1824, and settled in Autauga county, Ala., near Rocky Mount, where
they spent most of their lives farming. Lewis G. Robinson was a successful
farmer and business man, and was largely engaged in saw milling. He died in
1879, and his wife in 1868. They were both members of the Methodist Protestant
church and had accumulated a good estate. Dr. Robinson's maternal grandparents,
Rev. Jaseb and Martha (Jones) Whetstone, were natives of Orangeburg district, S.
C., who came to Autauga county, in 1822, where they spent their lives. She died
in 1843, and he in 1852. He was a local Methodist minister for fifty years, and
a prominent Mason. In Alabama they accumulated a nice fortune. He was of
English, and his wife of Dutch, parentage and had a large family of industrious
children. Dr. Robinson belongs to a family of five sons and four daughters, as
follows: William Lawrence, deceased, of Autauga county, was all through the war;
Dr. Edwin Hunt; Payton C., of Moorehouse parish, La., was also in the war; Dr.
John Asa, surgeon in the war and died since in Mexico; Jacob Lewis, deceased,
was in the late war. The daughters are: Martha, deceased wife of Dr. J. I.
Lamar; Eliza, wife of Gavin _Pou, a merchant of Pensacola, Fla.; Caroline, wife
of Lewis A. Pou, also a
merchant of Pensacola, Fla.; and Mary A., deceased; Dr. Robinson was reared on a
farm and had good educational advantages, including Latin, Greek and French. He
read medicine with his uncle, Dr. John A. Whetstone, and in 1849 graduated from
the Medical college at Memphis, Tenn., and since that time has practiced in
Elmore county. He is a very temperate man, and consequently well preserved and
healthy, and not having lost twenty days from his business on account of
sickness in all his years of practice. He uses neither tobacco nor intoxicating
drinks. His services were too valuable at home to permit of his going to the
war. He is a member of the county medical society. He takes a lively interest in
the politics of his party, but he has never aspired to office. He was married
November 10, 1859, to Jeromie, daughter of Walter and Rachael (Leysath) Knight,
natives of Orangeburg district, S. C. They are the parents of seven children, as
follows: Walter F., Zora D., wife of J. H. Spires, of Montgomery; Nellie Lee,
wife of William Rugeley, of Montgomery; Griffin Edwin, Thula Omega, Erline and
John, deceased. The doctor owns in different tracts, nearly 1,700 acres of land
in Elmore county. He is serving his ninth year as worshipful master of
Hampden-Sidney lodge, at Robinson Springs, No. 67. His wife and children are
Methodist Protestants, while the doctor leans to the Universalist belief.
Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 946
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI
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